Real Estate

Home prices across the country rose slightly in December, according to data released Tuesday by S&P/Case-Shiller, but at a much slower rate from a year ago. Looking at 10 major cities, single-family home prices rose 4.3% year-over-year, up from 4.2% in November. An index measuring 20 major cities shows that home prices were up 4.5%, [...]

It’s important to consider the life cycle for real estate as compared with the stock market. One key part of the diversification benefits for owning Real Estate Investment Trusts (or REITs) has to do with the longer-term market cycles
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In Part I, we examined the way asset bubbles form and looked at the tech bubble of 2000 and the housing bubble of 2007-08. In this article, we'll conclude by looking at why a bubble may be forming today in U.S. stocks. If you own any stock investments, this is one article you should consider reading!
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Rents in big, glittering metropolises like New York and San Francisco are notoriously pricey and getting pricier, but it's quickly getting more expensive to rent in smaller cities across the country, too.
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Things are looking up for Bruce Jenner. The Olympic decathlete-turned-Keeping Up with the Kardashians star, who suffered a serious setback recently when he was involved in a car accident that left one woman dead, recently scored on a sweet real estate deal in Malibu, CA.
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I forget where I heard it or who told me, or maybe I read it somewhere, but the message was that I should be the one in charge of my own health care. It wasn’t up to my doctor or anyone else to make sure my physical and medical well-being was being properly managed, it was my job. That made a lot of sense to me. So now I am the CEO of all things medical and dental whether they have to do with the upkeep or the repair of my own personal physical being.
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Numbering 77 million, millennials – those aged 25-34 – make up one-fourth of the U.S. population. These young professionals are drawn to big cities like NYC, San Francisco, LA, DC and Chicago by jobs, night life and good food, but often find they can’t afford to live there. According to [...]
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It’s the dividend increases - even more than current earnings projections (or Funds from Operations for REITs) – that provide the best possible forward-looking indicators of growth and total return prospects.
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